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When I tell people that I am going to be a
music teacher, they always share few thoughts about their own
experiences with music education. So many people remember
music class as a time where they would come in to class, take
a music text off the bookshelf and sing for a half an hour and
then go back to class. Music education is so much more than
merely singing fom a book. As a teacher, I provide students
with opportunites to experience music through singing,
playing, creating, moving, composing, listening, reading,
writing, and evaluating. My goal as a music educator is to
help students find ways to express themselves through music.
Every students has a different learning style. While planning
I consider all the different ways that student learn. I
include a variety of activitivies geared toward each learning
style.
The second grade lesson of the song "If
All The Raindrops" is a good example of a lesson for all types
of learners. This is lesson was on dotten eighth followed by
sixteenth notes when counting on ta and ti-ti we use the word
jerky for this particular rhythm. Students saw this rhythm on
the counting cards used at the beginning, they heard the
rhythm in the song, and they experienced this uneven rhythm
through skipping to the song (putting the uneven in our feet)
and played ostinatos on unpitched percussions. In the next
lesson we used this dotted eighth followed by a 16th in
another song.
If All the Raindrops Lesson
Plan
In
a third grade lesson on meter, I had the students looking at
music in 3/4 meter, singing and listening to music in 3/4
meter, creating movement that showed that they could feel the
downbeat followed by two upbeats, and taught a kinesthetic
movement to help them discover if pieces are in a 3/4 or 4/4
meter.
There's a Hole in the Bucket Lesson
Plan
The following artifacts are visual aids
used to to teach a particular song or concept. I discovered
that picture cards for songs are very useful with young
students because many of them have different reading
abilities. The rondo manipulatives were used to help explain
this form and then take another song and put it into rondo
form.
Rondo Lesson Plan
Rondo
Manipulatives
Circus
Parade Lesson Plan
Circus
Parade Song Cards
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